Happy Thanksgiving! This is Kent Monkman's "Justice Etching" from 2018.
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! This is Kent Monkman's "Justice Etching" from 2018.
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Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.”
Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?
Or do they just sorta do it?
Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?
Or do they just sorta do it?
October 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.”
Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?
Or do they just sorta do it?
Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?
Or do they just sorta do it?
Reposted by Greg Varner
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
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It's interesting how the "American conservative movement" in the 1970s and 80s mashed together "leave me alone to do whatever I want" libertarianism with an evangelical movement premised upon the idea that "it is our entire job in the world to never leave you alone until you act & believe as I do."
June 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's interesting how the "American conservative movement" in the 1970s and 80s mashed together "leave me alone to do whatever I want" libertarianism with an evangelical movement premised upon the idea that "it is our entire job in the world to never leave you alone until you act & believe as I do."
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
This does not look official. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid
Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.
dailyprogress.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This does not look official. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
"Even the sultan needs to be taught."—Somali proverb
April 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Even the sultan needs to be taught."—Somali proverb
I love this idea from Cleve Jones to try to help Andry José Hernández Romero, a gay man abducted by ICE and whisked away to a brutal prison in El Salvador. Organizers of every Pride fest in the U.S. and beyond should immediately name Hernández Romero their Honorary Grand Marshal. Pass it on.
April 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I love this idea from Cleve Jones to try to help Andry José Hernández Romero, a gay man abducted by ICE and whisked away to a brutal prison in El Salvador. Organizers of every Pride fest in the U.S. and beyond should immediately name Hernández Romero their Honorary Grand Marshal. Pass it on.
Reposted by Greg Varner
April 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Is basic competence too much to ask for? Apparently, yes.
March 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Is basic competence too much to ask for? Apparently, yes.
Reposted by Greg Varner
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
Check out this great piece from "60 Minutes"
Young musicians' dreams were dashed when the U.S. Marine Band followed orders to cancel a concert featuring middle and high school students of color, a result of the Trump administration’s executive order banning DEI initiatives. 60 Minutes, Sunday.
March 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Check out this great piece from "60 Minutes"
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Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
March 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The logic of authoritarianism demands that the circle of repression must always widen. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The logic of authoritarianism demands that the circle of repression must always widen. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
March 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
Texas state rep Stan Gerdes's new bill (HB 4814) would outlaw "nonhuman behavior" in schools, including possession of litter boxes (students will no longer be able to carry their litter boxes to school with their lunch pails); leashes, collars, etc.; animal noises; and—most cruel—licking oneself.
March 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Texas state rep Stan Gerdes's new bill (HB 4814) would outlaw "nonhuman behavior" in schools, including possession of litter boxes (students will no longer be able to carry their litter boxes to school with their lunch pails); leashes, collars, etc.; animal noises; and—most cruel—licking oneself.
Democrats should play hardball and refuse to vote for ANY budget until the lawbreaking stops. No more illegal impoundments of public money!
Damn right. Don't vote for this. Tell Americans it's tax cuts for the 1% and GOP will pay for it by gutting Social Security and Medicaid. Have Republicans defend it.
www.axios.com/2025/03/12/s...
www.axios.com/2025/03/12/s...
Senate Democrats embrace hardball on government shutdown
"There are not the votes right now to pass it," Sen. Tim Kaine said.
www.axios.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Democrats should play hardball and refuse to vote for ANY budget until the lawbreaking stops. No more illegal impoundments of public money!
I agree--no cooperation from Dems on the budget until the lawbreaking stops. Period.
March 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I agree--no cooperation from Dems on the budget until the lawbreaking stops. Period.
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“ Several House Republicans told Axios they have succeeded in — or at least contributed to — getting DOGE to reverse certain cuts through private back-channeling.”
As Senate Dems fiddle Rs keep scheming w Musk to make sure DOGE inflicts pain mostly on Democratic states, districts. @axios.com
As Senate Dems fiddle Rs keep scheming w Musk to make sure DOGE inflicts pain mostly on Democratic states, districts. @axios.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“ Several House Republicans told Axios they have succeeded in — or at least contributed to — getting DOGE to reverse certain cuts through private back-channeling.”
As Senate Dems fiddle Rs keep scheming w Musk to make sure DOGE inflicts pain mostly on Democratic states, districts. @axios.com
As Senate Dems fiddle Rs keep scheming w Musk to make sure DOGE inflicts pain mostly on Democratic states, districts. @axios.com
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In Ruth Marcus' new column for The New Yorker in which she unveils the Washington Post column that was rejected and led to her resignation, she points out that the paper's media critic Erik Wemple also had a piece disagreeing with Bezos' new opinion mandate nixed.
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
March 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
In Ruth Marcus' new column for The New Yorker in which she unveils the Washington Post column that was rejected and led to her resignation, she points out that the paper's media critic Erik Wemple also had a piece disagreeing with Bezos' new opinion mandate nixed.
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
Ad on the London Underground
March 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Ad on the London Underground
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Reposted by Greg Varner
This is the kind of thing CFPB was invented to handle www.thecut.com/article/pslf...
Her Student Loans Were Forgiven. Then They Came Back.
Student borrowers are seeing ghost loans and mysterious charges. Who’s to blame?
www.thecut.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is the kind of thing CFPB was invented to handle www.thecut.com/article/pslf...
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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.
www.tsunami.gov
www.tsunami.gov
February 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.
www.tsunami.gov
www.tsunami.gov